UD Basketball
Coaching Staff

Chris MacMartin
Assistant Men's Basketball Coach

Chris MacMartin will be entering his second season as assistant coach after joining the UD program in the summer of 2021. During his first season, the Spartans went 21-7 overall and 14-2 in American Rivers Conference play. UD won both the A-R-C regular season and conference tournament championship for the second straight year while making a NCAA Division III tournament appearance.

MacMartin arrived to UD after seven years on staff at Northern Illinois University. He served as an assistant coach at NIU in 2020-21, following one season as the Director of Player Development and Operations with the Huskies. MacMartin moved into a full-time role following two years as NIU’s video coordinator/graduate assistant from 2017 to 2019. He joined the NIU basketball program in 2014 as a student manager, working for the Huskies for three years as an undergraduate.

During MacMartin’s time at NIU, the Huskies posted three seasons which rank among the top-seven for single-season wins at NIU, earning 21 victories in 2015-16 (tied for second-best), 18 wins in 2019-20 (sixth-best) and 17 wins in 2018-19 (tied for seventh-best). NIU captured a share of the MAC West Division title in the 2019-2020 season. That year, the Huskies earned a first-round tournament bye for the first time since 2006. As a graduate assistant, MacMartin helped the Huskies to a 17-win season in 2018-19, while reaching the Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2003.

MacMartin helped mentor Eugene German to a remarkable senior season in which he led the MAC in scoring, became NIU’s all-time leading scorer with 2,203 points and became just the eighth player in program history to earn All-America recognition when he was named to the Lou Henson All-America Team. German also earned First Team All-MAC and First Team NABC All-District honors.

A native of Rockton, Ill., MacMartin earned his bachelor’s degree in Community Leadership and Civil Engagement from NIU in 2017 and his master’s degree in Adult and Higher Education in 2019.

Alexander (AJ) Bollis
Graduate Assistant Men's Basketball Coach

In the summer of 2022 AJ Bollis joined the UD men’s basketball program after graduating from Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. At Graceland he served as a student assistant coach, oversaw the team’s strength & conditioning, and also had a key role in on-court player development and team operations.

Prior to his time at Graceland, Bollis had a similar role as a student assistant coach at the University of Michigan-Dearborn during the 2019-2021 seasons while also coaching at Belleville High School in Belleville, Michigan in 2021. During his single season at Belleville, Bollis served as an assistant coach on the varsity staff as well as the head freshman boys coach. Both teams had successful seasons (Varsity 14-2, Freshmen 11-1), en route to conference championships at both levels.

Bollis also spent time in Madrid, Spain during the summer of 2021 where he was an assistant coach and video coordinator for a professional club, the U.S. Supersonics.

Originally from Peru, Illinois, Bollis graduated from LaSalle-Peru Township High School in 2019. He was able to earn his Bachelor’s degree in History from Graceland in 2022 and is planning to graduate from UD in 2024 with a Master’s degree in Sport Management.